On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Gerardo Alvarez wrote:

> I tried again to install NetBSD with no success :-(
>
> .- A Powerbook 150 with 24 Mb RAM, and a 3,5 Gb internal IDE hard disk,
> partitiones as follows:
> 		.-512 Mb for Mac OS
> 		.-128 Mb for Root
> 		.-256 Mb for Swap
> 		.-2 Gb for Usr
> 		.- The rest in an extra, unused partition
>
> Using one the latest available daily build, sysinst fails when newfsing
> the disk. This is a manual transcript (possible typo errors):
>
> 	Warning: 95 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
> 	/dev/rwd0a: 256.000 sectors in 271 cylinders of 15 tracks, 63 sectors
> 	uid0 comm newfs on: file system full

I think that means you're running out of room on "/" (or "/tmp").

> And then:
>
> 	status: failed: command ended on signal
> 	command: /sbin/newfs /dev/rwd0a
> 	Press any key to continue
>
> "df" shows the following:
> filesystem		512-blocks	Used	Avail		Cap		Mounted on
> /dev/md0a	3967		3122	845		78% 	/
> kernfs		2			2		0		100%	/kernfs
>
> This is the same that was happening some time ago, as I mentioned
> before,
> so maybe the multi-cpu bug is not related to this error...

Try this:

    1) From the shell, add the swap, with "swapctl -a /dev/wd0b"
    2) Mount a memory file system on "/tmp": "mount -t mfs /dev/wd0b /tmp"
    3) Exit back to the installer, and resume.

Frederick